Vegetable slicer



0d. 15, 1935 TAYLOR 2,017,822

VEGETABLE SLICER Original Filed Sept. 22, 1933 lNENTiOR Patented Oct. 15, 1935 UNHTED ST'E'ES AENT OFFICE VEGETABLE SLICER Ewing H. Taylor, Dallas, Tex., assignor to J. H. Marshall, Dallas, Tex.

1 Claim.

This invention relates to vegetable slicing devices and it has particular reference to a hand operated device for slicing potatoes, beets, carrots and other like vegetables for cooking or garnishing salads and meats.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an improved type of slicing blade of a simple and inexpensive construction, so arranged that it may be quickly and readily mounted and dismounted on the frame and further, that it may be interchanged with other blades of similar construction but adapted to produce a difierent efiect upon the vegetable being sliced.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simple and durable frame which may be constructed at a very low cost and one which is light and convenient to handle and does not require any type of fastening or securing means.

Still another object of the invention is to provide an improved chuck or holding means for the vegetable while the latter is being subjected to the slicing operation as it is advanced upon the blade and which chuck is designed to positively grip the vegetable and prevent its displacement by being acted upon by the blade.

With the foregoing objects as paramount, the invention has particular reference to its salient features of construction and arrangement of parts which will become manifest as the description proceeds, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a slicing device constructed according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation, showing in dotted lines the blade removed, and

Figure 3 is a detail view of the blade showing in dotted lines the first step in effecting removal of the blade from the frame. T'Continuing with a more detailed explanation of the drawing, it will be noted that the frame I is constructed solely of heavy wire and is bent into a U-shape' to define an upright portion 2, the upper end of which portion is bent into a plane parallel with the lower portion and provided with a sharpened point 3. The opposite upright portion 6 of the frame has a series of convolutions 5 to define a bearing or support for a rod 6 and carries the hand 1 extending at right angles from the upright portion 4 of the frame I.

The rod 6 is bent at one end to form a crank and has a handle 8 rotatably secured thereto while the opposite end of the rod has a disc 9 rigidly aflixed thereto, The disc 9 serves the useful function of holding the vegetable during the slicing operation and will be referred to hereinafter as a chuck. The construction of the chuck 9 is not unlike the chuck shown and described in my co-pending application filed April 5 25, .1932, Serial Number 649,029. It will be noted that these chucks have lugs I0 struck outwardly from the faces thereof and are disposed at an angle relative to the plane surface of the chuck. By being so disposed when the chuck is ad- 10 vanced against the vegetable during rotation, the lugs ID will bite into the vegetable, compressing the meat thereof into the wedge shape spaces beneath the lugs thus holding the vegetable tightly and preventing its displacement as it is advanced against the blade ll. Were it not for the angular disposition of the lugs ID, the resistance oliered by the blade ll would tend to loosen the vegetable on the chuck and render the slicing operation dimcult to perform.

The blade II is struck outwardly from a substantially rectangular plate l2. This plate has an aperture a at a point approximately midway between its ends and is further provided with a clip I3 likewise struck outwardly from the material of the plate l2. The clip l3 has a slight degree of resiliency or springiness and by holding the plate l2 in the position shown in dotted lines in Figure 3 and advancing the same upon the point 3 of the upturned portion 2 of the frame, causing the point to enter the aperture a of the plate, the plate may be rotated to the position shown in solid lines in Figure 3 so that the portion 2 of the frame will be received by the spring clip l3. The resiliency of the clip I3 has the effect of clamping the plate firmly onto the upright portion to the frame.

It will be observed that operative rotation of the chuck 9 is against the locked side of the plate l2, consequently there is little likelihood that 40 the plate will be loosened by normal operation of the device.

In normal operation, a potato, carrot or the like is impaled upon the chuck 9 by holding the same against the chuck and rotating the latter by manipulating the rod 6. The handle 1 is grasped with one hand and the crank handle 8 rotated with the other andadvanced at thesame time so that the vegetable will be moved against the blade H and at the same time impaling the' vegetable on the point 3, the principal function of the point being to center the vegetable and obviate the possibility of it being displaced relative to the blade. This operation produces a spiral slice and in case of preparing potatoes 15 or the like for frying it is unnecessary to pare or peel the potatoes. It is obvious that there is little waste in preparing vegetables for cooking in this manner. The blade shown in the drawing is constructed to produce a simple slice of a definite thickness but other plates having blades of peculiar design and capable of producing a thicker or thinner slice may be interchanged with the plate shown by a simple movement of the plate to detach it from the frame.

Manifestly, the construction shown is capable of some modification and such modification as is considered within the scope and meaning of the appended claim is also considered within the spirit and intent of the invention.

What is claimed is:

A vegetable slicing device including a frame having upturned portions to define a U-shape, one of said upturned portions having a series of struck outwardly therefrom to extend along the 5 longitudinal axis of said plate and provided with an aperture also in the longitudinal axis and adjacent the inner end of the blade to be received by the other upturned portion of said frame,

a lug also carried by said plate at the other side 10 of the aperture from the blade and arranged to engage the upturned portion when said plate is rotated to a perpendicular position intersecting the rotatable axis of said chuck, to hold said plate in secure relation to said frame and means 15 to rotate said chuck toward and away from said plate.

EWING H. TAYLOR. 

